Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1935 — Page 7

[(.OVERLEAF DAIRY DAY IS PRAISED

[I.KIEPPER Lus purpose I J BABY DAY L st "■ Ivakins Program I «,o» for i,alry nay *" !° r tXe of making dairying to t'"’ P roducer •" M the manufacturer and) 1“ be done by closer ■*’ and a mu,l,al N ■j* between 'he producers E, manufacturer. K-UtiowhiP is so close, that 0! ourselves in terms of I E nrf sei;tative- »e not only fc'heraw product that K ~.• we are also vitally I IT in securing the best and Editable markets for same. E a , both of ns should ben■L such a relationship as „r course of great im- ■ , hQt W e should know each Ederstaml each other s probEnd work shoulder to shouldt L out the difficulties and Ethat whirh WP are determf' do-make dairying profitbe farm and the marketE d»:ry products profitable End (or you. 1. jj order to do this, both of E, understand that best reEs secured through individEtutive. it is true that our ■—m-nt and our good Presb E rf . trying therr best to pull L 0! this mess—but —never Ejaute lose sight of the fact Em and I Ynust do the one E,ecessary to bring about stic- ■ Your problem is to make E< pay. Our problem is to E« do than—secure the markE keep building to place the Eg os dairying even higher K7is at present. For that reasEare having this Dairy Day— E s the knowledge of experts Kjryiag to you —as explained to ■ ttda'-d you want success in Eg-you must have the best ■ naterial, which means good ly cows. Then your next step is, L- care, and the right market msrbt where you are treated 1 b and squarely when you get Kier your product—and today Eoud to say that the success ■ pur splentjd <>rgatxizi| ion is ■ on the foundation —of giving ■ taer at al! times the highißarta price for his product—k been because 6’ the loyalty ■ the splendid cooperation of ■ patron friends—that we, have ■tered the lean years. You be- ■ ihttsand we put all our con■Ke in you—and toda,y, as the ■of promise for future better ■is shining brightly, I give ■ lessage to you: ■tilts in a great country—we ■in great times—lnitiative as Im will bring gfeat results, [the kindly feeling the trust )joa have in us. and we in you, I tend to bring more and more » to you and to us. We are k and happy today to see this IT crowd of people, ft is fllui»e of a turn for better times — I well with any country when lean smile, and be happy, and ■ this note I say to you ‘'Thank dor coming, we enjoyed it very Mil DAIRY IUD SPEAKER D. Munn Os National Dairy Council Tells Os Progress is inspirational today to look trer the vast crowd, and to 1 that dairying is held in 1 high esteem in this fine sec“iay is auspicious, as it marke fcle of SIMM) years ago when dairy cow appeared on Wne of the world stage, •too. 20 years ago a great, dis"Y »as made that has left ®* rk on the dairying indusb. for 20 years ago it was disr>l 'hat milk contained ele’iial to growth—bone and L ? ' wlh ~-and before that it b,/ known that foods conProtein and fats and car'nl'alpg. has made a great con“i *0 agriculture. World -'PPed the progress and it L* n J n that the Nation- ’ council was set up. Since JP'ion of this diary council ' splendid work that they nc and are doing there is of the consumpfl ™‘ k and its products of a, and butter and cheese ”»!* However. there l'» toli . Ch t 0 be don ® a “d this oa is 50% less than

what it should be and If thia 60% [ increase is to he achieved which i would mean better health for all; the children and the adults of j this country of ours —then 15,000,-1 000 more dairy cattle would have . to be in this great country of ours. | Dairying in Indiana since 1920 has shown an increase from 14.5% • to 24.9% in 1933 —the dairy industry today is outstanding as far as cash and groso income is con- i coined on the farm today. We urge that people living in I the city and also in the country consume more dairy products and to use dairy products in place of any other shortenings in the pre--1 paratfon of their foods. HARRY LESLIE PRAISES IDEA OF DAIRY DAY Ex-Governor Says Dairy Day One Os Greatest In Entire State Dairy Day sponsored ay the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., has become one of the great days of Northern Indiana and the State of Indiana generally. It might be termed a day of educat lona' diversion, as residents of nearby cities, | towns and rural dstrlcts may take part in gainful recreation where ' the family and merchant can have a pleasant time, mingle together 1 and consider the time well spent. I As a result they .become better ac--1 quainted and have a belter underI standing of one another. The business of Dairying is a part of Farming and in the last j one-half of the l»th century has I made more progress than any other phase of that industry, and in that time has improved more than in all of the previous centuries ! combined. The Cloverleaf CreamerI ies, Inc., are attempting to bring before you the many advantages ; gained and awaken you to the j possibilities of future improvement. It would .be an endless task for Ime to enumerate the various itnj provements and discoveries that have been made in the production and marketing conditions of dairy ' products. I consider it one of the 1 marve.'s of the age. t During my short span of years 1 1 remember when the dairyman or milkman, as he was then called, milked his cows, dumped the milk 1 into big cans, the top of which was I covered with a cheesecloth that could strain out only the big i chunks of dirt, while the germs passfd merrily on into the can. The can was then without further adieu about sanitation, placed in the dairy or milk wagon and hauled to town for distribution among the customers. The milkman attracted the attenion of a customer lof his approach by ringing a bell or pounding a steel triangle with a ; steel rod. Some member of the ) family rushed out into the street with an uncovered pan and the milkman, upon the arrival of his customer’s representative, proceeded to dip into the can with a long handled quart or pint measure, the handle having been soldered on the side of the measure, and draw up the intended amount and dump I it into the customer’s pan. togethjer With a lot of barnyard dirt, , street dust and an undetermined i amount of bacteria and germs. He j seldom sold the last one or two .quarts from the can for the reason i that it contained too much sett- , lings. After science proved that this was a dangerous ‘‘death-dealing ' procedure, especially for babies, | we arrived at the milk bottle days. I This for a while considered at the last word in that milk was delivI ered in a el-cun bottle with a i clean cap, until some wide awake i person informed us that in addition to the cap a cover should he placed on the bottle or the priveleges given to cats and dogs to lick the top the bottle, after delivery to the customer, would render null and void the millions oi dollars spent to free the milk of germs and bacteria before delivery. Equal improvement has been made in the delivery of other daury i products. Cloverleaf Creameries, I Inc. pioneered in the. delivery of cheese in package and box form and today we are receiving milk, cheese of many different varieties, ice cream, and other of your products too numerous to mention in as near as known correct sanitary condition, and in conclusion, though we may think we may have reached the peak in the betterment of the dairy business. I trust that someone in attendance at this meeting will take note of the inventions and discoveries i tending to the betlCTment of production and marketing conditions | between the time of this and the next meeting and be kind enough to enumerate them.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935.

HIGHWAY HEAD TEILS OF ROAD WORK IN STATE James I). Adams Discusses Value Os Roads To Dairy Industry Before taking up the discussion of the subject which baa been assigned to me, I should like to take a moment to congratulate Mr. Klepper and the Cloverleaf Creameries on the development of this biennial celebration of the great dairy Industry. Yet with a'l the credit which is due to the great Cloverleaf organization we must also give unstinted praise to the 1 vast army of men and women who 'have joined with the Cloverleaf company in the improvement of the dairy industry. Agriculture is the most ancient and honored of all vocations and dairying has become one of the most fundamentally sound pursuits of our present day civilization. Interesting as this would be to : discuss, the committee has assign--1 ed me a subject, so I must talk of ' our Indiana highways. In any consideration of rural life ’ we must recognize the influence • of transportation. A farm which is ■ not easily accessible to market op- ' erates under a severe handicap. ' But here In Indiana there has ' been a remarkable highway development. We find that Indiana has ■ more miles of road per square mile ’ than any country in the world ex- ’ cept England. Indiana has more miles of road per square mile than 1 any of her sister states except Massachusetts and Connecticut. 1 Indiana has 71 percent of her high- ’ ways improved which is the largest 1 percentage of improved highways 1 of any state in the union. 1 Four out of seven U. S. routes ’ extend from the Atlantic to the ■ Pacific cross Indiana. Indiana is ! to a large degree, the crossroads ’ of the nation. In meeting the needs of our highway users, we are faced with ’ a colossal cost. In 1903, there were 1 but 15,000 automobiles owned in 1 America. Today, there are mara ' than 25 million motor vehicles bly--1 ing our highways. Ribbons of concrete, blacktop, ' gravel or stone stretch out in endless miles across our own state and ■ across the nation. Our streams and ■ rivers are bridged with re-enforced ’ steel structures which should stand for generations. Within two de- ■ ■ cades the major portion of this 1 change has come. ’ Distances have been practically ’ eliminated. The trip to town which 1 was an event twenty-five years ago. is hut a thirty minute journey : today. But with all thTs change has ’ come a great change in the basic motor industry itself. 1 The easy motoring of a few L yea»s ago has been displaced with 3 the burning speeds of today. Adequate construction of yesterday ’ cannot meet modern needs. These ’ rapid changes are coming faster ■ than the resources of the highway ! department permit the correction 3 of dangerous spots. 1 The old narrow rigYit of way, the ’ narrow pavement, the narrow < u'- ’ vert or bridge, the sharp turn, the ' short visibility, have become sac- • tors which hazard the life of each 1 motorist on our highways. 3 The metropolitan press records ’ the death of countless people near- ' ly every-day —people who have ' been victims of motoring accidents. In all the disasters at sea in the ' world during the past hundred ’ years 73,000 Eves have been lost, ■ but in just the last three years • more than 96,000 Americans have ' been killed or died of injuries sus- ’ tained in automobile accidents. The ‘ tol 1 this year will approximate 36,1 000 killed and one million injured ■ in America alone. It is our belief, that it is just as ■ -important to build a highway ' which gets the motorist to his des- ■ tination in safety as it is to build the highway at all. It has been clear- ■ ly established that with the increas- ' ing speeds of motor cars we must have a wider traveled surface; we must have wider shoulders which 1 necessitates a wider right of way. we must have wider culverts and wider bridges and curves must not be too sharp. In any long-time consideration ■ of our road problems in Indiana . we must recognize that the immediate future holds two important de1 velopments. First, the improvement, of our ■ farm-to-market highways as most of our important roadways have already been constructed; and second the extension of rural electrification. Not many years ago New England was recognized as the industrial center of America Her development was pointed and cen- - 1 tralized along that line but the changing conditions in America have found New England slowly

Iceberg On Exhibit

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Visitors to see Iceberg perhaps i saw little unusual in the. Guern-; sey Bull exhibited at the Cloverleaf Creameries in connection with the Decatur Free Street Fair and agricultural exhibit. The bull would have placed well in any show except for one reason. Its back is curved in, caused, its exhibitor Edgar F. Cox, said, because of its lack cf exercise while a calf. The bull was born in the Ant- ' artic and confined to either a small cage or a narrow stall in a ' little barn until it was a grown bull. Because of this its ® back muscles had no opportunity to develop.

deprived of her great industrial development so that today she is losing part of that which had become her basic wealth. Indiana's position is quite diff- ' erent from that of New England. IWe have a splendid industrial development, a development which I offers employment to more than . 400,000 of our citizens. Our second largest employment [goes to agriculture which uses approsimately 275,000 of our work--1 ing people on 201,000 farms. IndI iana’s population is nearly 55 per cent rural. The average of the I United States is 52 per cent. Here in Indiana, industry and agriculture most nearly meet ajid • the maintenance of that strong ba'- i , ance is imperative as Indiana its to ■ ) attain the position of eminence' i that her natural endowments offer. When extensive rural elq^trifica-' i tion has taken place and our more 1 i important farm to market roads have been improved, they will be unquestioned factors in raising the , standard of living, in the placing; of our farmers on a parity with their neighbors in the Tennessee Valley. It will tend to build a strong rural population and it will he'p to maintain a strong balance , between agriculture and industry. With our improved roadways and the ever ready motor car. many of our citizens of the future will choose their homes away from the) more congested city development. During the past five yoaqs, we have learned that a strong rural) population is more able to withstand a severe depression than our people here in Indiana to continue the development of our rural sections, first by building better farm • to market roads, second by extend- j ing our electric power lines into 1 the rurgl sections, and, third, by seeing that the strong balance is maintained between agriculture) and industry. If we adhere to these three po'i-i cies, Indiana may face the future with assurance that ours is a part) of the world ready to meet what I comes. May I express my appreciation at having been given this oppor-) tunity to address and having been ) present at this very outstanding [ dairy day celebration. t ° f I J. L. Kraft Wires Regrets At Being Unable To Attend The following telegram from J. L. Kraft was rp.ad by W. A. Klepper, general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries at the Dairy Day program Thursday night. "Dear Bill: “Please convey this message to | the thousands who assembled to celebrate Cloverleaf Day at Decatur. “I would rather be with you than here. Ever since last Dairy Day, I have looked forward to a.ttendng another great celebration and re-1 gret circumstances prevent my be-1 ing present. But in spirit, not spir-) •its, I am with you, I hope every man, woman and child will enjoy every minute of the day. And may the sun shine with blessings of the memory of Father Seimetz who I 1 sat beside me on another platform ■ 'last Dairy Day. i J. L. KRAFT.”

■ In addition to the lack of exer- : cise the bull had no green food. It hats never learned to eat grass. For a time its exhibitors had a , standing offer of five dollars to any child who could make the bull eat grass. None collected. Illustrative of the manner in which nature adapts itself to conditions is the manner in which the hair grew on this bull and the three Guernsey cows on the trin. The bull’s grew to be four inches while the cows grew to three ; inches. All the cattle had to be clipped as soon as they reached a point on their return trip where the climate was higher than subzero.

CALF CLUB SHOW REPORT GIVEN Complete Result Os ( all Club Judging Is Listed Today The complete report of the judging of the 86 head of cattle in the 4-H calf club show yesterday was announced this morning. The judging was done by Professor J. B. Fitch, head of the , dairy department of the University of Minnesota. The complete list is: Ayrshire i Junior calves: first, Robert L. i Mann; Senior calves: first, Stanley Arnold; second. Eugene Arnold; Senior yearling: first, Norman Augsburger; second. Hugh Richard Beitler; grand champion, Stanley Arnold. Jersey Junior calves: first, Glen Gris- > fiths; second. William Arnold; I third, Hugh David Mosser; senior I calves: first. Grace Mosser; second. Hugh David Mosser; third, Catherine Mosser; fourth. Glen Griffiths; fifth, Verda Blocker; junior yearling: first, William Arnold; second, Glen Griffiths; senior yearling: fit st Catherine [ Mosser; second. Hugh David Mos i ser; cows: grand champion: Grace Mosser; first, Glen Griffiths; second, Ardon S. Mosser. Guernsey Junior calves, first, Margaret Moses; second, Lewis! Koldeway; third, Marion Burke; fourth. Jaunita Lehman; senior calves: first, Clinton Steury; second, I Clarence Schrock: third, Lewis Koldeway; fourth, Jaunita Lehjman; fifth. Raymond Mazelin. j sixth, Donald Poling: seventh, Barbara Lehman; junior yearling: I first, Eli W. Hahegger; second. ;Ix wis Koldewey; third. Marion Burke; fourth, Don H. Burke; [fifth, Margaret Moses; sixth, I Franklin Steury; seventh. Richard IK. Moses; sqnior yearling: first, | Barbara Lehman; second. Jaunita | Lehman; third. C. Wm. Archbold; ! fourth, Donald Poling; cows: first Pollyanna Lehman; second. Jaunitn Lehman; third. Richard K. Moses; grand champion. Eli W. Ilabegger. Holsteins Junior calves: first, Clifton J Habegger; second. David L. | Liechty; third. Alvin Nussbaum; i fourth, Franklin R. Steury; fifth. IG ‘chart R. Schwartz; sixth. Milo I D. Nussbaum; seventh, Silas G. Mazelin; eighth. Jesse R. Habegger; senior calves: first. Raymond Kolter; second, Arlene Ruth Steury; third. ‘ Estella Steury; fourth. Roy G. (Schwartz; fifth. : Naomi Rostna Steury ; sixth, Ar- [ thur Girod; seventh. Chaster H. | Schwartz; junior yearling: first, David Habegger; second, Leo L. Nussbaum; third. Elmer N. Nussbaum; senior yearling: grand champion. Raymond Kolter; first, I Leßoy Schwartz; second. Joel C. ) Habegger; cows: first, Raymond Kolter; second. Gerhard Schwartz third, Millard J. Schwartz.

ERIE OFFICIAL RELATES WORK WITH CREAMERY) Vice-President Relates Difficulty In First Milk Shipments 1 appreciate the honor of being asked to say a few word on Dairy I Day. This Is a wonderful turn-out and it certaln'y must make the dairymen of this State rejoice to ’ see this enthusiasm and interest. I It is fitting that a representaI t-!ve of the Erie Railroad should be ! here a# it was the Erie that handl-' i ed the first railroad milk shipment. This consisted of 240 quarts of i milk transported from Orange I County into New York City. It was i freely predicted that the milk would he butter by the time it ar-J rived at its destination, but it ar-' : rived in good condition. This was -in 1342, ninety three years ago, aa>d milk and dairy products have' ) been handled constantly since that I time. Now daily train service takes the milk and cream five or six hundred miles into the cities and at times shipments travel as far ias twelve hundred mi'es. We aye I proud of our dairy business. A little more than thirty years ago I spent ifour years in your State going to, school, and 1 have YTl’bn somewhat in touch with it since That time. I have always known tha.t Indiana was the home of a sturdy race of men known as Hoosiers; the home )of Hoosier poets and writers; the .home of many acres of corn; the | home of many hogs; the home of i the Wabash River, and now I find i tha.t Indiana is also the home of over several hundred thousand milk cow.T*lndiana, as a matter of fact, stands ninth among the but- ) ter producing states, in addition to 'exporting large quantities of cream and cheese to other states. I think I ought to tell you that ! 1 am not a stranger to the dairy business. In fact, I have a peculiar interest in this Dairy Day because 1 was born and raised on a dairy farm. I know wh-it it is to get the 1 cows from the pasture, feed the. calves, clean the stables, milk the I cows, peddle the milk from house ) to house on the milk route, make Ifitter and </>ttage cheese, milk for buter-fat with the old Babcock milk tester, in fact until today I would have said I knew something of the dairy business. It may interest you to know that a thorobred Jersey bull which I raiszd from a calf, paid most of my expenses through high-school. Tift- trip through the Cloverleaf plant has been a revelation to me. It is so far ahead of the modern plants of my boyhood that I have been amazed at the progress the 1 dairy industry made. The foundation of the industry is, of course, the herds of cows. Milk producing has become more scientific. Instead of arguing about Jerseys, Guernseys or Ho'steins, there seems to be a tendency to disregard the herd and pay attention to the individual cow. The cow that can produce the most milk or rasher the most butter-fat per dollars worth of feed is the cow that is wanti d. I can well remember when farmers did many foolish things—like using small nubbins of corn for seed that were unfit to sell; or small potatoes for planting that wore too small to eat, with the resu’t that, they got poor corn and poor potato crops, and that was ' only a generation ago. Now all this is changed. Undoubtedly the State Agricultural School as Purdue University has contributed very materially to this enlightment. Indiana has made great progress in its dairying the past ten years and the milk production per cow is said to be up to the average of the country, but it is not quantity alone that counts. QUALITY is the watchword. The industry that produces the highest quality can command the highest prices. Board of Health regulations in the cities are demanding better and better products, and there are more net profits in pound of butter-fat than there are. in pounds of poor milk. As the dairymen improve their production and efficiency, the railroads stand ready to transport this ' increased production to the consuming markets. We want the I dairymen and the producers of ’ farm products to be prosperous. Without the farms the railroads I would go barfkrupt, and without 1 the railroads the farmers would)' go bankrupt. We have a mutual ■; •interest—lt has always been so and let us hope it will continue. It is a pleasure to find Indiana as progressive as indicated here today. We have a. high regard for . many of the institutions in Ind- i iana. Your Tax Commission has ; done wonderful work. I have been ] i told that it is non-polltical and' 1 I that thru its Influence your taxes)! have been kept down below those

I of majiy other states. Bpeaking of taxes—do you realize that the rail- ) roads in this State pay 10 percent jof ail real estate taxes? If you are I ever confronted with government ) ownership of railroads your taxes ) would go up at least 10 percent because government owned railroads do not pay taxes. Indiana has been one of the foremost States in regulating truck traffic. The law passed this year is a remarkable step forward. 1 feel sure that through the enforce- 1 ment of this law all the taxpayers in the State will benefit. There is no reason why trucks should be allowed to compete without restriction w-ith the railroads who pay heavy taxes on dwho are regulated in every conceivable way. Within | the past few days Congress has passed a similar law and it speaks well for the common sense of the ) country that certain truck abuses are apparently on the way out. We are not opposed to good roads nor to motor trucks —they have their i places in the transportation system. We feel that the law which { you have passed will put them in I the proper relationship to the whole and will bring about an , equality of competition which has heretofore been lacking. It is wonderful to see the huge crowd that has attended these exercises. I was pleased to note the large number of .boys and girls who visited the dairy and viewed ' the stock judging. It shows that they are interested in good cows and methods, and if the youth are fnterested, the men and women will be. In conclusion, let me congratulate all who have made this day possible. It is a great exhibition and a wonderful tribute to its orto attract men like Mr. Leslie. Mr. Kraft and others from long distances. It is likewise a compliment to them to have so many people from surrounding country help them celebrate. Mr. Kraft and Mr. Klepper have accomplished wonders, and like all their associates in the Kraft Phenix Cheese Corporation and the Cloverleaf Creamery, they are to be most warmly congratulated in creating the largest and best known industry contributing to the welfare of farmers everywhere. I thank you. IERSEY PARISH SHOW PRAISED Purdue Expert And Cattle Judge Both Praise Exhibits Highly “The Jersey Parish number 7 show of Eastern Indiana, held in Decatur Wednesday was one of the best ever held in the state, ’ stated E. T. Wallace, extension dairyman of Purdue University today. He continued, “while tota' numbers have been exceeded, the quality of cattle was excellent.” Judge J. B. Fitch told exhibitors and the ring fold that “the cattle shown were a credit to any state.” ‘‘Most significant," he said, "is the number of cattle bred by exhibitors.” Os the 14 bulls shown 11 were bred by exhibitors and 38 of the 14 of the females which included all the first prize females were bred by exhibitors. “When breeders can breed their own champions they are a real credit to therr breed and community,” Judge Fitch continued. “Production records were also evident throughout the show. These were catt'e that are money makers for their owners —the kind of ow<s that keep paint on the farm buildings, buy home conveniences and send the youngsters to college. May the good work continue.” —o HENRY DEHNER CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ond. Grade suckers, mare: William Bell, first. Geldings, any age: E. W. Busche, first; W. Reiff, second and third; Noah Augsbirrger, fourth;- Menna Wulliman, fifth; J. J. Yoder, sixth. The gold medal colt club committee. in charge of the cattle show, was as follows: H. L. Dehner, chairman; Winfred Gerke, William Mitchell, D. D. Kaufmann, Frank Hahegger, Leon Neuemschwander and Edwin Neuhauser. Horse show officials were: H. P. Schmitt, chairman; H. L. Dehner. Edwin Neuhauser, Leon Neuenschwgnder, Winfred Gerke. Ed Omlor and Dr. G. F. Eichorn. o — Actress to Play Home Town Saint John, N. B.— (U.R) — Saint John soon may become a “dogtown" for Broadway shows. Margaret Anglin, Saint John-born Broadway actress, is understood to ba considering a plan to try out I hdr new play here before the pre-1 miere in New York.

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DAIRY PROGRAM TOLD BY EXPERT Purdue Dairy Expert Tells Os Cream improvement Program l The few minutes I have on this program will be confined to brief statements regarding Indiana's Cream Improvement Program, which has been adopted and is now in effect in Southwestern Indiana. The importance of such a program is realized when we know, approximately one-fourth of the Indiana farmers’ total yearly income Is derived from the sale of pre-, duels from the dairy herd and approximately 45 per cent of the State's entire milk production goes into cream for the manufacture of 76 million pounds of creamery butter and 10 million pounds of country butter. The growth and improvement of the dairy -industry in this state lias been gradual and it has required many years to reach the important place now occupied. Anyone, wha., is in touch with agriculture, realizes the important part the dairy cow has claimed in the recovery program the last few years. All of you have probably heard such a • statement as this: our cows are the only thing that saved us. In recent years there has been a gradual demand by consumers, by the United States Food and Drug Administration, and by the Statq Health Departments for improvement in the handling and process- _ Ing of all foods; more stringent rules and regulations for the handling of food products are being constantly demanded by the public. Those engaged in the handling and processing of food products'" and those who are (progressive and looking to the future are making every effort to comply with the ever changing demand of the. consuming public, for they realize'” they must do this in order to survive and compete with other food industries. The leaders of the Indiana butter industry have always been a.live to the public demands for quality and are anxious to main-, tain the quality of Indiana buffer and where possible to make-a*4:ll—-further improvements. I do not J ' know of any other state %Epr»‘ — those engaged in the butter iiwius- “ try have better information iigfOTe them regarding the quality and " composition of their butter than — those engaged in the butter ipdus- — try in Indiana. At the present time practically « every creamery in the shite is -send- “ ing monthly Samples of butter to our laboratories for complete qual- w ity of Indiana butter before them. “ a State Committee has worked out — a Cream Improvement Program. J This program has the approval and <• the support of the State Hoalth” Department as well as the States Food and Drug Administra- «- tion at Washington. This program ” calls for the use of the sedijpent»test in the purchase of cream, and ” the rejection of cream containing - excessive sediment or of a .lowquality. A man has been secured and ■ placed in charge of this cream im-’.” provement work and already ISw counties in Southwestern Indiana” are grading cream on the basis outlined in this program. This work” will gradually be extended untile the entire state is covered.. TheUnited States Food Administration™ and the Sate Health Deparunentinspectors are now condemning unwholesome butter and cream wherew ever :t is found, and the creamery-" man is not taking a chance by pur-, chasing such cream and later Jiav-J ing it or the butter made from itcondemned. * A cream producer who does not.wish to have his cream condemn " ed or rejected and who wishes to« help maintain and improve Indiana butter industry can do so.„ for the chief requirements in thoproduction of good cream arc’’ cleanliness, proper care of thecream on the farm and in transit” to the station or factory, and fre-.. quent delivery. It is the dairyman’sresponsibility to deliver to the buy-_ er, clean, wholesome cream, and—the creameries responsibility to™ keep that cream, clean, wholesome,, and cool, and then manufacture it~ into the best grade of butter poss-“ ible. You no doubt will hear more about this Cream Improvement Program in the next few months, and 1 hope that when it is started ii< your community that you will inform yourself on its and give it your full support. o — “ Thieves Strip Airplane Oroville. Cal. (UP) —Police were stumped by the first case of airplane “stripping” ever reported ii£ I Butte County. Someone stole a- ! wheel and a tire from a “parked’ airplane as Gridley airport.